encelado748@feddit.org 1 day ago
Discovery lacked much needed love for the franchise, with lot of nonsensical, lore breaking episodes. The same is true for Picard sadly. But I am finding STSA boasting some of the best episodes for a Star Trek season 1 series so far. Star Trek was always woke, and that is why it was so loved. STSA is no more woke than Voyager was. I see lot of respect from the writers to the previous series. STSA makes me think of TNG much more often than any other nutrek series (except lower deck, but that is nearly fanservice). Being into the future you have a lot of flexibility to do something new, and I like that a lot. Nahla Ake is a different character than Picard or Janeway, and that is fine. A great character nonetheless in my opinion.
I haven’t watched STSF yet but yeah there’s ton of stuff in Trek that would quality as “woke” right back to ToS, as well as a bunch of stuff that “broke” from an intellectual level.
I think my biggest issue with Picard is the latter… with the “fireworks in space” celebration (complete with sound of course) just making me want to bury my head in my hands.
It’s never been perfect, but it’s still entertaining.
The irony is that honestly, Academy feels way less “woke” than any of the other new Trek stuff. Its way less “in your face” about everything these annoying jokers call woke about Discovery or even Strange New Worlds.
What bugged me about Discovery was their need, especially in the later seasons, to have like an affirmation circle in the middle of a mission–frequently when there was a ticking clock of some kind. My wife and I would be yelling at the screen “this is what the debrief is for!”. SNW does this sort of thing really well. As has Starfleet Academy. I’m really digging it.
Damage@feddit.it 14 hours ago
Noo don’t tell we chose this acronym (no corrections please) over SFA, which is 3 letters and much better
encelado748@feddit.org 11 hours ago
No no, we did not! I simply were not sure what to use! I saw STSA, SA, SFA, STA. I wanted to be unambiguous 🤣
SA sound good to me if we use LD to be honest.